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	Season 3 / Episode 21: - It's Not Just A Word (1) Rene Jackson: [about the N word] I don't ever want to hear that word again. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: Never? What about "To Kill a Mockingbird"? "Huckleberry Finn?" "Port Dixie"? Rene Jackson: I don't think those kids were expressing their artistic freedom the other night, M.E.
	Season 3 / Episode 13: - Where's The Justice In That? Rene Jackson: Yesterday I caught April smoking a joint. April's Mother: At least it's just weed. Rene Jackson: Today... April's Mother: Look, it's not like I can keep tabs on my daughter. I'm serving 10 years in here because my boyfriend was a dealer, at the time we were living together it was because I needed someone to help raise my kids. He pulled up a name so high and mighty, nothing I had to say about him meant jack. He cut a deal and got out after two years, does that sound fair to you? Now I got someone I don't even know telling me how to raise my kid.
	Season 3 / Episode 10: - The Outsiders Rene Jackson: If she loses this case, she'll be deported and her son will go to foster care. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: [sarcastic] Oh yeah that's just what we need, another kid in foster care.
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - Three Lucky Ladies On The Line Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: [to Tillie Sims after Colliar got beat up by a bookie she owed money to] You know a couple months back Colliar and I were behind on our bills and I had to go down and pay in person and they didn't break my nose for paying what I owed them, so try it again.
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - Three Lucky Ladies On The Line Rene Jackson: What're you doing here? Mary Elizabeth: Hiding out, plotting murder, the usual.
	Season 3 / Episode 2: - It's A Good Thing I'm Not Black Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: It's a good thing I'm not black, because by now I'd be dead, or I would've killed somebody. Rene Jackson: Or both.
	Season 3 / Episode 1: - Nope Singer: Children, full of fear and anger/Caught up in a deadly dance with danger/Why can't we read the signs/Before they make headlines?/Oh, somebody please, see through them!/Calm their fears, hold them close/The ones who seem to deserve love the least/Are the ones who need love the most/They wanna lock him away, forever and a day/He killed someone cold, he's only 12 years old/Somebody please, see through me, I'm not so bad I'm just lost, the times we seem to deserve love the least are the times we need love the most.
	Season 2 / Episode 21: - The Toolshed Behind The Church Rene Jackson: I was conceived on this rug? Sara Jackson: Either that, or in the toolshed behind the church.
	Season 2 / Episode 15: - A Parent's Job Rene Jackson: If they would look past the witchcraft stuff they would see a perfectly normal pre-Christian religion... Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: Pre=Christian? Just what the hell is that supposed to mean? Rene Jackson: It means there were religions before Christianity, like Buddhism, Hinduism, and Wicca is one of them. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: Oh my God, they've got you under their spell, don't they?
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Elephants In The Room Colliar Sims: It has to get really dark for the stars to shine, suge. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: This is dark enough for me.
	Season 2 / Episode 10: - It's Not About The Butter (2) Young Rene Jackson: It's like my daddy always says, it's always darkest before the dawn.
	Season 2 / Episode 10: - It's Not About The Butter (2) Mary Elizabeth: You son of a bitch! You scared me when I was a kid but you do NOT scare me now! Jimmy O'Brien: What're you talking about? Mary Elizabeth: Cross! Gasoline! My front yard! Jimmy O'Brien: Calm down, Peanut, what's happened? Mary Elizabeth: You burnt a cross on my yard and don't peanut me!
	Season 2 / Episode 10: - It's Not About The Butter (2) Jimmy O'Brien: [Rene recalls 35 years ago when Jimmy and his partner pulled she and Sara over, held a gun to Rene's head and made Sara call herself a nigger] That wasn't me. Rene Jackson: But you watched, and enjoyed it. And through time you have continued to watch, is this all you do? Jimmy O'Brien: I don't always watch and you know it you fancy assed high heeled nigger! [court gasps] Rene Jackson: You hate me, don't you? Jimmy O'Brien: Yes I do, and that ain't illegal either. Rene Jackson: No, but you went from hating to hurting and God bless Alabama because in this state, hurting IS illegal!
	Season 2 / Episode 10: - It's Not About The Butter (2) Matthew O'Brien: Why were you over there? Mary Elizabeth: He [Jimmy] burnt a cross on our front yard. Matthew O'Brien: What? Mary Elizabeth: Your brother, burnt a cross, on our front yard. Catherine O'Brien: Mary Elizabeth, that is ridiculous. Mary Elizabeth: Oh no it was really quite spectacular, what was it Colliar? About 8 feet, turned into a block party, neighbors brought lawn chairs, everybody had such a good time we hope he does it again next week.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - It's Not About The Butter (1) Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: [about racism] How else am I supposed to learn about this stuff other than dying my skin black? Hey, there's an idea, I could call it "Black like M.E.".
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - It's Not About The Butter (1) Jimmy O'Brien: It's been over 20 years, peanut, what brings you down here? Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: I'm writing an article for the Birmingham Voice. Jimmy O'Brien: About me? Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: About racism. Jimmy O'Brien: What you call racism, I call patriotism.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - It's Not About The Butter (1) Young Colliar Sims: Nobody's going to get hurt, Mary Elizabeth. Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: They bombed her church, four of her friends died, a lot more's happening than just getting hurt, Colliar, and I hate it!
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - It's Not About The Butter (1) Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: He said he was going to kill you! Rene Jackson: So what else is new? Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: He is crazy, Rene, just crazy, just take a gun off the wall and go kill people crazy. Rene Jackson: I'm not afraid of your uncle, M.E. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: Well I am.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - It's Not About The Butter (1) Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: Oh I get it, it's okay for her to hate me because I'm white but it's not okay for me to hate her because she's black! Rene Jackson: It's not okay but you probably haven't been hurt as much as she has. I've been there, mad at the world. Why was that saleswoman rude to me, because I'm black? Why did that clerk wait on that person first and not me, because I'm black? Is this guy looking at me because I'm a black woman driving a Mercedes or because he's just a jerk having a bad day. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: He's just a jerk having a bad day. You want to rock his world? Kiss me. Rene Jackson: [pause] No tongue.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - It's Not About The Butter (1) Jimmy O'Brien: Thank you for the cookies, peanut. Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: Rene and I made them just for you. [Jimmy pauses] Matthew O'Brien: [smirking] Eating colored cookies, how do they taste now, Jimmy?
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Don't Say Anything Catherine O'Brien: Now just what am I going to tell Mrs. Sims if you don't come to the picnic? Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: Tell her I saw Colliar's father hit him and it gave me a stomachache.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - You Really Believe In That Stuff? Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: Davis, do you know why Kelly's dressing like death warmed over? Davis Sims: Duh, it's because she's a goth now. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: A what? Davis Sims: A goth, you know, like Gothic...fantasize about death and stuff, you need to get out more. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: And I think you've been getting out too much.
	Season 1 / Episode 18: - I Wish You Could Understand Rene Jackson: I think we should add this to our list of things not to talk about. Mary Elizabeth: That list gets bigger every day and I hate it.
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - I Feel Awful Catherine O'Brien: [the staff at a white hospital refuses to admit Rene who's unconscious and needs stitches] If you let this child die, I'm calling President Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., the NAACP and every other Colored organization, we'll rally outside the hospital, it'll make last month's march on Birmingham look like a picnic. Now you get this girl some help!
	Season 1 / Episode 11: - It's Who You Sleep With Rene Jackson: In 1963 it was what color you were, in 1998 it's who you sleep with.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - Courage ... It Means Heart Matthew O'Brien: She's my mother, I've loved her more than you ever have. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: Since when?
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - Courage ... It Means Heart Rene Jackson: He probably can't deal with the fact that she's getting older. Some people do that, they withdraw from people's lives to avoid seeing them age. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: For 35 years?
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - Courage ... It Means Heart Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: [finds Irene's cat, calling] Hey Grandma, it's Mr. Tangerine. [hears gunshot]
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Please Don't Tell My Mother Rene Jackson: Are you okay? Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: My 15 year old daughter just got picked up for drunk driving and called my best friend to come and bail her out and not me. No, I'm not okay. Rene Jackson: You got so drunk the night of our senior prom that you drove your car into an electrified fence. Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien Sims: Tell me you didn't tell her that. Rene Jackson: I told her we had a rough time growing up.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Please Don't Tell My Mother Catherine O'Brien: [vacuuming] How was the game? Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: There was no game. Catherine O'Brien: Did you win? Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: I didn't even play. Catherine O'Brien: What was the score? Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: [shouting] You're not listening to me! Catherine O'Brien: [shuts off the vacuum] I'm sorry. Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: We didn't even play, yesterday Rene started bleeding all over the place. Catherine O'Brien: Oh my! Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: Now she doesn't want to do anything, she says it's because she's a woman now. Catherine O'Brien: Well yes, it does have to do with becoming a woman, it's called menustration. Young Mary Elizabeth 'M.E.' O'Brien: Why do they call it a men's station if it's about being a woman? Catherine O'Brien: No, Mary Elizabeth, menustration.

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